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OSA is a repetitive partial or complete blockage of the upper airway while sleeping. Signs and symptoms of OSA may include, but are not limited to, snoring, witnessed breaks in the breathing pattern while sleeping and excessive daytime sleepiness.
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Frequently, excessive sleepiness is the reason that patients present for an evaluation of possible sleep apnea. Sleep apnea is only one cause for sleepiness.
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Insomnia is the inability to fall asleep, the inability to maintain sleep or obtain restorative sleep, despite adequate opportunity for sleep with some resulting daytime consequence, such as excessive daytime sleepiness.
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Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep, which takes up about 20-25% of our sleeping time, is generally where we dream. During this state of being, we are essentially paralyzed, that is, no muscles work other than the eyes (ergo REM sleep), the heart and the diaphragm.
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Periodic Limb Movements of Sleep (PLMS) are a repetitive movement of the legs, and less commonly arms, during sleep. They are diagnosed during a sleep study. PLM’s of Sleep may be related to Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS).